Tossup
In a speech to a group of social anthropologists, this thinker called atheism a “one-word solution to all the world’s current problems”; that speech by this thinker was published as Waiting For Foucault, Still. This thinker developed a theory positing that, as a method of conflict resolution, many Indigenous peoples welcomed colonization. This developer of the Stranger King theory clashed with Gananath Obeyesekere over systems of rationality in the context of Captain Cook’s death. This anthropologist analyzed the “Domestic Mode of Production” in a 1972 book arguing that Neolithic people only needed to work 15 hours a week. That book by this anthropologist of Islands of History noted that hunter-gatherers were the “original affluent society.” For 10 points, name this anthropologist who wrote Stone Age Economics. ■END■
Buzzes
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | TUH | Conv. % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 0% | 0% | |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 20% | 20% | 95.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 50% | 17% | 103.00 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 83% | 17% | 85.60 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 50% | 0% | 97.00 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 40% | 0% | 95.50 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 60% | 20% | 75.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 50% | 0% | 97.00 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 50% | 0% | 94.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | 4 | 0% | 0% | |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | 10 | 30% | 20% | 106.67 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 67% | 0% | 104.00 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 0% | 0% |